PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. E. Shannon, for many years on • the electrical staff at Tuai hydroelectric station, is on transfer on promolion to Lake Coleridge. Mr H. L. Benjamin, engineer to the Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board, is at present on annual leave and left during the week-end for Botorua. Dr. E. P. Ellison, officer in charge of the Cook Islands medical department, arrived from Rarotonga by the Matua yesterday morning on furlough. Miss Constance Macdonald has retnrned to Napier from Hawera, where she acted as adjudicator af the dancing sections at the Competitions Society 's festival Mr J. D. Mackay, of Wellington College, has been appointed Education Officer at Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch. He was to leave to-day to take up his new position. Mr A. G. Austin, Bailways bus manager at Hastings, has been appointed to the charge of the newlyacquired Rotorua services, and leaves for that place on Thursday next. Mr Colin Tapley, formerly of Dunedin, who has had much (success as a fllm actor at Hollywood, is expected to return on a short visit in October, after he has completed a picture in Malaya. He will return to Hollywood. Mr S. E. Stedman, otationmaster at Levin, is to retire on superannuation next week, after 46 years' service with the New Zealand Railway Department. Mr Stcdman, who has been stationed at Levin for the last nine years, is to retire to Napier. He ie to be succeeded by Mr D. G. Law, at present senior clerk at Te Kuiti. Mr E. B. Davies, Wellington, had the degree of doctor of philosophy conferred on him at the summer graduation of Aberdeen University. Mr Davies, who is a son of Mr rwiliiam C. Davies, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, is at present on the Continent. He is to leave shortly for New Zealand by way of tho United States, where he will make a point of visiting agricultural research stations. While in Aberdeen he was working at the Macaulay TnstitUto for Soil Researeh.